If walking down the streets of our country, you ask an average citizen the main problem of Colombia, the most likely answer is: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). If an hour after an attack prompted a police commander and the Army about the authorship of this fact, the most likely answer is FARC. And if someone disagrees with government policies and slams on his forehead will have a stamp that says FARC.
Never mind that the citizen does not have employment, their children are not studying at home and sometimes no food or services. Nor that the commander has just learned of the attack and has no knowledge of any threat has been made. Much less than the critic is an honorable person that does not fall on any suspicion. The name of our problems are the FARC.
more than eight years ago in Colombia is breakfast, lunch and dinner with this terrorist group, calling themselves guerrillas. No news on that lets you appoint, either direct or speeches made indirect, but the FARC never leave the ears of Colombians.
The media presence and focused attention to all inhabitants of the country on the FARC is not fortuitous and is not only causing violent interventions of this group. The boom of the FARC remains, not only because they want it, but because the government itself is a clear intention to keep them on the national agenda.
If anyone is interested in the FARC appear on radio, print and television is the same president, Alvaro Uribe, who has made this his strongest armed group of political positioning strategy, obtaining results never before seen in the country.
, however, is that Uribe is a genius and have found the magic formula to be liked. His strategy has already been used a century ago in a most despotic government and radical than his. Joseph Goebbels, minister of spread of Adolf Hitler, today applied the approach applies the Colombian president, in a axiom which titled "Single Enemy."
To Goebbels, to establish a rival to represent only the hatred of an entire nation was the first key to a successful political leader. Name many enemies was simply to generate a perception of weakness and frailty that would raise confidence in the governed. Hitler perfectly applied this principle of governance, which led to the foundation without any major setbacks his Nazi movement.
Undoubtedly, the current single enemy of Colombia is the FARC. This 'guerrilla' is a key element of feeling political cohesion of the inhabitants of our country and also a factor distractor that may appear to put any scandal in which the Government is wrapped.
So the FARC have been used by Uribe. When there are scandals exile, 'false positives', pikes, and other political favors, was enough to call a terrorist act of this band for the minds of the Colombian government failures disappear.
a couple of weeks ago in a political discussion, a friend told me that defeating the FARC was the key step to overcoming the many difficulties in Colombia. It is unfortunate that with a facade so manipulated, she and the rest of the country forget that the FARC are a part of the wide range of problems that this country suffers, and not all of it. Even
this terrorist group is the only agent that kills violence, kidnapping, extortion and stealing. Colombians must remember that here there is still the ELN, common crime (which has advanced in the cities) and of course the paramilitaries, which remain valid, vaccinating peasants and innocent murdering drug addicts and restrictions on freedoms of rural and urban sectors sacred heart country.
Thus, the FARC are not even a single military enemy, even the strongest (the eye). The people are wrong to think that defeating the guerrilla going to be the infallible medicine for the disease of the Colombian people.
not forget that the FARC are not guilty of unemployment, illiteracy, hunger, poverty or corruption. Moreover, the FARC are not the cause but the consequence of these situations. What good will defeat them if the social drama that gave birth? Is not gestarían new forms of violence under the same scenario?
While still think that the FARC are the only problem and that the blame for everything that happens in Colombia is of them, we will continue to settle the misery that we are the world's happiest country and that the quality of our people is unmatched.
Thus, we follow a militaristic course, similar to that followed in Germany under the provisions of Goebbels and forget the food, employment, education, law and ethics. And when it wears off opium has blinded us again to see a country mired in poverty, where children are starving and politicians steal the money. Then we are aware of our misfortune and we will want to know in advance that not only does man live bullet.
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